Epigraphic Bulletin for Greek Religion

Chaniotis, Angelos; Stavrianopoulou, Eftychia

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“…Cretan ambushes as continuity of Homeric practice: Sekunda (1981) 161-64. 92 Anti-deceit clauses are particularly common in Cretan treaties: Wheeler (1984) 264-65;Chaniotis (1996) 77. 93 Haft (1984) and Kotsonas (2018) draw links between Odysseus' bowmanship and false stories told in the guise of a Cretan, and the later reputation of Cretans as archers and liars.…”

Section: Violence and Valuesmentioning

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“…95 See IC I xix 1 (Chaniotis (1996) no. 11); III iii 3B (Chaniotis (1996) no. 26); III iii 4 (Chaniotis (1996) no.…”

Section: Violence and Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…28); IV 180 (Chaniotis (1996) no. 46); IV 182 (Chaniotis (1996) no. 44); SEG 26.1049 (Chaniotis (1996) no.…”

Section: Violence and Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…46); IV 182 (Chaniotis (1996) no. 44); SEG 26.1049 (Chaniotis (1996) no. 59); IC I xvi 5 (Chaniotis (1996) no.…”

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The Cretan way of war: status, violence and values from the Classical period to the Roman conquest

Lewis

2023

J. Hell. Stud.

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The tactics of Cretan citizen armies differed markedly from those utilized in most regions of the Classical and Hellenistic Greek world: instead of fighting in phalanxes, Cretans fought in open order, specializing in archery, skirmishing, ambushes and night actions. These tactics (and the cultural attitudes that went with them) were disparaged by mainland Greeks such as Polybios and explained in terms of moral deviancy: a sign of the duplicitous nature of the Cretans. This article demonstrates that these descriptions of Cretan tactics and behaviours are factual, but argues against the idea that they derive from moral deviancy. Rather, they represent the outcome of a different line of historical development than that followed in mainland Greece. Cretan tactics and attitudes stand far closer to those described by archaic poets (especially Homer, Archilochos and Kallinos); in this regard, Cretan city states displayed strong continuities with archaic social practices and values, detectable in other areas of Cretan society and culture. The stability of Cretan sociopolitical organization from the late seventh century down to the Roman conquest fostered the endurance of such practices and attitudes, leading to cultural divergence from mainland Greece and, accordingly, a generally hostile representation of Cretans in our main historiographical sources.

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Section: Violence and Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…95 See IC I xix 1 (Chaniotis (1996) no. 11); III iii 3B (Chaniotis (1996) no. 26); III iii 4 (Chaniotis (1996) no.…”

Section: Violence and Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Cretan way of war: status, violence and values from the Classical period to the Roman conquest

Lewis

2023

J. Hell. Stud.

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Manteis and Medicine

Harris

2020

Mnemosyne

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The many scholars who have supposed that there were persons known as iatromanteis (healing-seers) who offered medical assistance in archaic and classical Greece have been in error—there was no such occupation. But manteis (seers) did sometimes offer medical advice in classical Greece, in addition to their other roles, especially—so it seems—during epidemics and to chronic patients, and notwithstanding the rise of Hippocratic medicine. The evidence to this effect is more extensive than is commonly realized.

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Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries: A “Thin” Description

Bremmer

2012

Mystery and Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature: Ideas and Practices

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The philosopher Democritus once said: "A life without festivals is like a road without inns" (B 230), but there can be little doubt that among all the Greek festivals it is the Eleusinian Mysteries that most intrigues the modern public. It is the aim of this contribution to take a fresh look at this festival during the height of the Athenian empire, the later fĳifth century b.c. Unlike older studies, the most recent detailed analyses, those by Walter Burkert and Robert Parker, have given up on a linear reconstruction of the ritual. 1 Yet there is something unsatisfactory in such an approach, as it prevents us from having a proper view of the course of the ritual and appreciating its logic. 2 Ideally, we should reconstruct a linear "thick description" (to use the famous term of the late Cliffford Geertz [1926-2006]) of the experience of the average initiate, mystês, 3 but we are prevented from doing so by the fact that our main and rather scanty literary information is from Christian authors, who often wanted to defame the ritual, and, in some cases, lived 600-700 hundred years after Athens' heyday. For these

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Epigraphic Bulletin for Greek Religion

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The Cretan way of war: status, violence and values from the Classical period to the Roman conquest

The Cretan way of war: status, violence and values from the Classical period to the Roman conquest

Manteis and Medicine

Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries: A “Thin” Description

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